RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.04-1
Reini Urban wrote: I'll try to upload a fixed 1.05. Okay. Thank you. :-) David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Running OpenOffice from in cygwin.
I have been trying to open OpenOffice to read MSWord files from inside a script in cygwin. I figured out how to add OpenOffice to my path, but it still failed. I then went back to trying on the command line. The script had left the document in /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc. So:- a) In /tmp/ME3268 - swriter WSPC.doc opens fine. b) In /tmp - swriter ME3268/WSPC.doc opens fine. c) In / - swriter tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc opens fine. d) Anywhere - swriter /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc does not open and leaves no messages. It seems to not like a full path. The script was of course running in my home directory and uses the full path. Is this a cygwin problem or an OpenOffice problem? Does anyone understand what is going on? I have of course found a work around, but it is messy. Regards, Brian. -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Post: 626 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia Phone 03-93992847. http://www.salter-duke.bigpondhosting.com/brian/index.htm Honorary Researcher Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Univ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Running OpenOffice from in cygwin.
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: d) Anywhere - swriter /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc does not open and leaves no messages. It seems to not like a full path. /tmp/anything is a POSIX path. Only Cygwin apps can understand these kind of paths, because they are a fiction invented by Cygwin. You have to give OO a win32 path, because it's a native Windows application, just like any other non-Cygwin program. See man cygpath, e.g. swriter $(cygpath -w /tmp/ME3268/WSPC.doc). The quotes are essential if the path expands to something containing a space. Having OO in the PATH is unnecessary as well, you can just refer to it by its fully qualified name, e.g. /path/to/swriter $(cygpath -w /foo/bar/whatever) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.
Brian Dessent writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please anyone touch setup.exe? If the mirrors pick it up then we (you! :) know that it is, somehow, a time stamping issue. The issue can probably not be cleared up right now and is probably not worth the trouble, but perhaps it can be just fixed. I've touched the setup.exe on cygwin.com. Thanks Brian. It seems to work: Not all mirrors have picked up the change yet, but those that have and those which I checke are now carrying the executable from ftp.cygwin.com. I think you should email the hostmaster of ftp.mirror.ac.uk if the one byte discrepancy continues because it would indicate a flaw in their mirroring process. Thankfully I'm spared to argue that, but the executable was wrong at all mirrors I checked, not only ftp.mirror.ac.uk. That would suggests a common cause, very probably something at the master site (which is ftp.cygwin.com, isn't it?). Whatever -- I can't see me writing the host masters of some 20 or 30 mirrors to point them to an error that was probably upstream. (Or did I somehow miss the significance of ftp.mirror.ac.uk in that process?) But thankfully that is academic now: I expect the other mirrors to pick up the changes within the next days and will perhaps actually write to those that don't (esp. if they are those that I use :-), because that would really indicate breakage in those mirrors. Regards -- Markus PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that still so and would you, please, not burn my address further? (And yes I know I might not have stuck to that rule in all cases myself within the last 2 days, my apologies: I have to remove the addresses by hand and in my annoyance probably forgot once or twice.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Speed of Cygwin's cp vs. Windows Explorer
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to Bob Heckel on 5/12/2007 7:23 AM: Why would using Cygwin's cp to copy a large file from one Windows XP box to another take 30 minutes but take only 10 minutes if I use drag 'n' drop (via Explorer)? It has been mentioned in the past, and one of the ideas was adding support for posix_fadvise (added in the snapshots, but not in 1.5.x) and making coreutils take advantage of it to give Windows better hints about how the data being manipulated will be laid out. I have not yet had time to play with this idea further, and the upstream coreutils maintainers are reluctant to rely on posix_fadvise just yet (since Linux currently has a bug where stating a file is read-once flushes it from the os cache for ALL processes, rather than just the process that is only going to read it once, which makes the read-once hint rather useless). I thought that was what software configuration (and autoconf) was for: -DHAVE_DEFECTIVE_fadvise or something like that should just remove the support from coreutils like (AFAIR) you can remove use of mmap() too. I'm in a position of defending the use of Cygwin instead of the manual Windows way of doing things by those not familiar with Unix. Any hints would be appreciated. At least cygwin cp preserves permissions correctly. Windows drag-n-drop has the annoying tendency of marking everything executable. :-) Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR
Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [manually deleted] wrote: PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that still so and would you, please, not burn my address further? If you don't want your address burnt, then why don't you add a real name to the From: field of your posts but expect people to manually remove your email address from the quotation header? Because I was not aware, that it is the absence of the real name that triggers inserting an _unmangled_ mail address. As it is, there is just the email in the 'From:' since I (just for the moment) have to add the 'From:' address manually each time. A thing they wouldn't need to do if there was something more than just your mail address in From:. Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR
Markus E.L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By hell. My apologies. And with deep regret. etc. I'll really have to have a look, why that sometimes works and sometimes not (my address mangling). Until then: Suspension of being allowed to post to the list by myself. Regards -- Markus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:13:58PM +0200, ls-cygwin-2006 wrote: Brian Dessent writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please anyone touch setup.exe? If the mirrors pick it up then we (you! :) know that it is, somehow, a time stamping issue. The issue can probably not be cleared up right now and is probably not worth the trouble, but perhaps it can be just fixed. I've touched the setup.exe on cygwin.com. Thanks Brian. It seems to work: Not all mirrors have picked up the change yet, but those that have and those which I checke are now carrying the executable from ftp.cygwin.com. I think you should email the hostmaster of ftp.mirror.ac.uk if the one byte discrepancy continues because it would indicate a flaw in their mirroring process. Thankfully I'm spared to argue that, but the executable was wrong at all mirrors I checked, not only ftp.mirror.ac.uk. That would suggests a common cause, very probably something at the master site (which is ftp.cygwin.com, isn't it?). Whatever -- I can't see me writing the host masters of some 20 or 30 mirrors to point them to an error that was probably upstream. (Or did I somehow miss the significance of ftp.mirror.ac.uk in that process?) But thankfully that is academic now: It was actually all academic before since: 1) there was nothing wrong with the setup.exe on the mirrors and 2) people shouldn't have been running setup.exe from the mirrors to begin with. This really does not, IMO, deserve as much attention as has been given here. PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that still so and would you, please, not burn my address further? Your From: is not formatted to include a name so I suspect that Brian, like I (and Corinna, FWIW), has an email client which uses the email address in that case. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR
* Markus E.L. (Sun, 13 May 2007 17:14:46 +0200) Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [manually deleted] wrote: PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that still so and would you, please, not burn my address further? If you don't want your address burnt, then why don't you add a real name to the From: field of your posts but expect people to manually remove your email address from the quotation header? Because I was not aware, that it is the absence of the real name that triggers inserting an _unmangled_ mail address. You /still/ don't have one. it's Firstname Lastname since the dawn of time. T. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter umount for this purpose?
Morgan Gangwere schrieb: erm... there ARE other 3pp apps that have detrimental effects after installation of Cygwin. one of them is (of all things) Irssi, the IRC client. Cygwin does some mangling of the fs, setting up mount points in certain places it needs. But those mounts points are just helpers for the cygwin1.dll. If there ARE other 3pp apps which need those mount points (and cygwin of course), then you are not allowed to deinstall cygwin, because then your other 3pp apps will need work at all. If other 3pp apps are no cygwin apps, then you can safely remove those mount points, or not. Nobody cares for those registry entries besides the cygwin dll. On 5/6/07, Reini Urban rurban wrote: ^AARGH PCYMTNQREAIYR http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Ghuoargh schrieb: A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it on my computer. However, since then some other programs did not function properly any more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin. I read on the pages of cygwin.com, that in order to do this I need to enter the command umount (several times) somewhere and uninstall by this procedure all mount points which are listed when I enter mount alone (this procedure is correct, or?). Please read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all mount points are just registry entries which do no harm to other programs and are deleted by step 6 of the FAQ entry. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.04-1
David Christensen schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: I'll try to upload a fixed 1.05. Okay. Thank you. :-) I found out that I already have the latest perl-Win32-GUI-1.05-1.tar.bz2 at my setup site since 2006-11-08 (forgot to upload), and of course this dumps core with this Scintilla app also. http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/ So I'll prepare a perl-Win32-GUI-1.05-2.tar.bz2 after fixing the internal LoadLibrary issue the 2nd time. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
